Looking at the photos by Matt Eich in the book Carry Me Ohio I found myself wondering what happened to the renowned American dream. I browsed through the pages many times, carefully observing every detail, blurry object, every close-up and didn’t know how to feel. I was speechless in front of the boy with a dashed line tattoed around his neck and the words “Cut here”, or of an overweight teenager on a broken mattress with the big toe in his mouth; an old kitchen with dirty dishes, a drunken man sleeping in an alley. And then a foggy landscape, a zebra under the snow, two kids playing with a rat, a big mural.Is this the true America? Why is it so different from what we read in the novels, see in the movies, where there’s always a flag waving unchallenged? Why everything in the photos by Matt Eich seems so distant and remote?This book starts Eich’s project The Invisible Yoke: four chapters trying to tell America as a nation through its inhabitants and where it is going.